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Hassett Briefs Reporters on Canada, Inflation and the Supreme Court Tariff Case, Oct. 24, 2025

October 24, 2025 · Roll Call Factbase Videos · 0:06:53

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What happened

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett spoke to reporters outside the White House on October 24, 2025, in Roll Call Factbase Videos’ recording. On Canada, Hassett said the President’s post revealed frustration built up over months of negotiations — not a reaction to one ad — said the Canadians had been very difficult to negotiate with and lacked flexibility, and noted the U.S. was now negotiating with Mexico separately, as he stated it.

On the shutdown, with federal workers missing their first full paycheck that day, Hassett urged furloughed workers to talk to their supervisors about help including credit-union loans at zero interest, and repeated the argument that Senate Democrats were no longer acting as a moderating force. On the Supreme Court tariff case, he said the administration had a very high level of confidence the Court would side with it, that he had been reading through the briefs himself, and that he had discussed it with the President in the Oval the previous night, as he stated it. On inflation, he called the latest numbers fantastic, said core was down against August and against expectations, noted 48 Bloomberg economists had gotten it wrong as he stated it, and attributed the topline to a refinery shutdown in Indiana that had pushed gas prices up in September.

Why it matters

The gaggle is Hassett’s fullest shutdown-era briefing: the Canada frustration put on the record, the paycheck-relief advice, and the NEC director’s own extremely-high-confidence read of the tariff case before the Supreme Court.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the Supreme Court tariff-case confidence and the inflation read as Hassett stated them on October 24, 2025 — flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated.

Sources: Roll Call Factbase Videos, ‘Press Briefing: Kevin Hassett Speaks to Reporters Outside the White House — October 24, 2025,’ uploaded October 26, 2025 (video NAb9dJudDTw); transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, never republished verbatim).